Hello guys Hope everything going well. Anyways, I was going to upgrade one of my 500GB to 1TB because I got limited 5 Ports ( 2X1TB + 3X500GB ) So While check i found those... Should I worry about the disks? I was going to replace the one with the highest temps of the 500gbs any ways and it did most life time 18K life time...
It could be the SATA cable. My external HDD on eSATA showed an error on SMART. I changed the eSATA cable, and no more problem are reported. If it's not the SATA cable, I don't think your HDD will instantly fail... but it could corrupt data that reaches a certain sector. In other words, don't trust it. But what bugs me, is that it's all your HDD's... so it could be a bad SATA controller. Is your SATA controller set to AHCI? Make sure it is (unless you have a RAID of course), if it's already on AHCI). Try updating the SATA controller drivers. Do you have another SATA controller on your motherboard? if so, try your HDD on that one. See if the problem is solved.
Re-allocated sectors aren't as bad as you think. All drives will re-allocate sectors if there are surface errors. I have a seagate drive that had re-allocated sectors from new... in fact every seagate I have had as been the same, which is why I will never buy another seagate drive, BUT.. it' still going strong. Don't worry... But... (there's that word again)... back up your data. You should do this anyway, even if it had zero reallocated sectors, but if that reallocated sector count keeps going up, then that's a warning. Ignore it at your peril. ALL hard drives will fail at some point. Some after 10 weeks, and some, if you're lucky, after 10 years.. but they will all fail. Running without a back up is like having unprotected sex with hookers. Sooner or later you WILL catch something nasty. Get a copy of Acronis True Image Home, and another dedicated back up drive, and then who cares if they fail. Looking at your data however, your drives are running far too hot. over 40C for a hard drive will shorten its life. Hard drives do not like heat. None of mine are over 25C even when being hammered. Get a fan on them. [edit] Just noticed a huge disparity between your power on counts and running hours. I assume you leave your rig on for long periods, and have no spin down settings in your power strategy. That's usually good for a drive, but at those temps it could actually be shortening the life prematurely. Unless you can get them cooler, set your power saving settings to spin drives down when idle after say.. 30 minutes.
I got a fan infront of them anyways! that's what drives me crazy! yeah I leave my computer running for days, the spin down thing, I wish if i can do it for each drive alone, because I need to keep system hard drive sniping to be able to download right? okay I will try the cable, I got one SATA controller on the motherboard and i don't have other. About drives I got latest bios and latest Intel rapid software and chipset, and yes i got ACHI on Pic of the fans :
You're sure the fan is spinning and blowing cool air onto the hard drives? Also, a drive will automatically spin up when it's being used (such as for downloading), so no need to worry about that. The system drive won't spin down much anyway during normal working.
